Luxury Recliners
Buy the best luxury recliners selected and recommended by interior designers. By Caroline Patterson.
We have a great set of high class chairs in this collection. Choose a sleek stylish look and bask in the arms of elegance as you recline in your own personal lap of luxury! Add one as a statement piece or why not add a few and create a personal seating area for everyone? With all the options and amenities available in this collection, you'll be ready to cozy up with a good book in front of a roaring fire or lean back and watch your favorite shows in comfort and style.
Luxury Recliners
Buying Guide
Caroline Patterson
Interior Design Expert
Caroline is a young, New York-based interior designer and home decor writer, obsessed with textiles and designer furniture. Backed with rigorous training from a prestigious design school, as well as a profound understanding of material quality and fabric care, she offers spot-on advice on how to furnish your place with reliable, functional, and aesthetically pleasing pieces.
Everyone loves a recliner, especially when it is time to stop, take a break and put your feet up. A luxury recliner takes it several steps beyond a basic recliner. The steps might include better fabric, more durability or just an extra bit of padding that makes it feel that much better than other reclining chairs. Or it might have an added function such as being created for your patio or outdoor life, or even having a lift added to end that struggle to get up out of your comfy chair.
A recliner can become a valued home furnishing. Not only does it allow you to stretch out, yet still have your head up to comfortably watch television or read a book, a recliner makes it easy to follow your doctor’s directions when he says, “Put your feet up and rest for a while each afternoon.” Elevating your feet lets fluids that have built up in your extremities flow back toward your heart – especially if your feet are at least as high as your heart or perhaps a little higher. This can help people who have low blood pressure but is beneficial to just about anyone.
Fabric is one of the ways that a recliner can go from ordinary to luxurious. For example, at one time many ordinary recliners were made of a substance called Naugahyde. This brand name for synthetic leather became something of a running joke, as in how many naugas did it take to make a chair or a coat, and who caught them. But they shared the problems inherent with all faux leather – cracking and splitting with age, susceptible to cat claws, cold in winter and hot in summer. Now imagine a recliner upholstered in real suede leather. The care would be a little more difficult, but the feel of it when you sat down would be amazing! Real leather, silk brocade, or quality plush could make a huge difference in the pleasure you take in sitting in your lounge chair.
Another way something can be luxurious is where it is developed to be used. In ther words, Where you use the recliner can also make a difference – whether it is an indoor only piece of furniture, or whether you can place it out on the patio. For example, you can have a gravity balance recliner that is a bare-bones sort of lawn chair. Or you can have a gravity recliner that has a sturdy indoor/outdoor cushion, rattan decorations and is adjustable so that you rest comfortably when you take your afternoon siesta after tending your beautiful garden. You can even get some recliners that have a lift that can help you overcome physical handicaps that might make it difficult to get in and out of a chair.